ABUT OF CRIPPLES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 69, 21 March 1916, Page 6

ABUT OF CRIPPLES.

AFTERMATH OF THE DISEASE. DOCTOR AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Dr. Clay, one of the honorary phvsiciane to the Wellington Hospital, in the course of an interview with an "Evening Post" representative, suggested that the Public Health Department had ignored the medical men in connection with its 'handling of the epidemic, but hie idea was that the congregation of children in schools should at such a time as this be seriously discouraged. In Manchester some years ago there was a similar outbreak, and the sdibW

were closed for an indefinite period. The same - thing should be done here. " Fudi-' gation of the schools was no remedy To-day there were in the \yellington gospital fifteen children suffering from the complaint who would lie cripples for life. This was only the beginning of bhe epidemic. Some of the patients had' both ogs paralysed, some had both legs and Whanra.paralysed, one had one arm and both legs paralyeed. Most of them that the State would have to look after TM aS K f lived - The seho °l3 should be closed, he urged. What the children lost in learning was nothing compared to the cost to the community of the effects of the epidemic-